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A Better World
Communities Care: Transforming Lives and Preventing Violence
1. Communities Care is a four-year initiative that has received
considerable financial co-investment from the US Government’s
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), along with the UNICEF
Peacebuilding and Education programme funded by the Netherlands
Government. It is implemented in partnership with Johns Hopkins
University.
2. UNICEF 2014 Communities Care Toolkit.
3. South Sudan Crisis: Sexual Violence around UN House Understanding
the Numbers and Risk Mitigation Needs GBV Area of Responsibility,
September 2016.
FAO Dimitra Clubs – boosting rural women’s empowerment using
information and communication technologies
1. Current data indicate that about 45 per cent of the world’s population
depends on agriculture, forestry, fishing or hunting for its livelihood
and that worldwide, women constitute 43 per cent of the agricultural
labour force, producing a large portion of the world’s food crops.
(FAO, 2011. The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11: Women in
Agriculture – Closing the gap for development)
2. FAO, The State of Food and Agriculture 2015,
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3. World Bank, World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends,
2016
4. Ibid
5. ITU, Facts & Figures 2016, 2016
Statistics/Documents/facts/ICTFactsFigures2016.pdf
6. GSMA, The Mobile Economy – Sub-Saharan Africa 2015 https://www.
b3c4a63&download
7. GSMA, Connected Women. Bridging the gender gap: Mobile access
and usage in low and middle-income countries, 2015 http://www.
GSM0001_03232015_GSMAReport_NEWGRAYS-Web.pdf
8. European Parliament, ICT in the developing world 2015 http://www.
STU(2015)563482_EN.pdf
9. FAO, Communicating Gender for Rural Development, FAO 2011
10. Short videos of the clubs’ achievements:
dimitra-news/en
Gender justice for women
1. The concept of gender justice is expressed in an article, ‘A New
Momentum In Women’s Movement: Gender Justice’, featured for the
first time in Turkey in the Turkish Policy Quarterly, and redefined
with reference to justice, as it points to “a higher concept in which
equality is inherent and including equity, balance, a more advanced
level of fair treatment and understanding of responsibility between
women and men.”
Strengthening the role of women in the marine fisheries
sector of South Asia
References:
– Anbarasan K (1985). Factors that Influence the Role and Status of
Fisherwomen. Bay of Bengal Programme. Chennai, India. BOBP/WP/33
– CMFRI (2006). Marine Fisheries Census 2005 (Part I). Central Marine
Fisheries Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research,
Kochi, India
– CMFRI (2011). Marine Fisheries Census 2010 (Part I). Central Marine
Fisheries Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research,
Kochi, India
– DAHD&F (2016). Draft National Policies on Marine Fisheries 2016.
Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India
– DoF (2015). Sankalan 2014. Department of Fisheries, Ministry
of Fisheries and Livestock, Government of Bangladesh (in Bangla
Language)
Binder1_1.pdf
– Drewes E (1982). Three Fishing Villages in Tamil Nadu: A Socio-
economic Study with Special Reference to the Role and Status of
Women. Bay of Bengal Programme. Chennai, India. BOBP/WP/14
– Drewes E (1985). Income Earning Activities for Fisherwomen in Sri
Lanka. Bay of Bengal Programme. Chennai, India. BOBP/REP/21
– FAO (2015). Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale
Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication. Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome. http://www.
– FMA (2015). Basic Fishery Statistics 2013. Fisheries Management
Agency, Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture, Government of
Maldives.
statistics/401-basic-fisheries-statistics-2013
– Menezes K (1991). Improving Marketing Conditions for Women Fish
Vendors in Besant Nagar, Madras. Bay of Bengal Programme. Chennai,
India. BOBP/WP/66
– MFARD (2016). Fisheries Statistics 2015. Ministry of Fisheries and
Aquatic Resources Development, Government of Sri Lanka. http://
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– Natpracha P (1986). Fisherwomen’s Activities in Bangladesh. A
Participatory Approach to Development. Bay of Bengal Programme.
Chennai, India. BOBP/REP/24
– NBS (2014). Statistical Release IV: Employment. Maldives
Population and Housing Census 2014. National Bureau of Statistics.
Ministry of Finance and Treasury, Government of Maldives. http://
PROSPERA: empowering women through social inclusion
1. Operational rules of PROSPERA. No. 10
The future we want: towards a better world through Sustainable
Development Goals
About the author:
Gia Gaspard Taylor is President of the Network of Rural Women Producers
Trinidad and Tobago; holds a Special Consultative Status with the
United Nations Economic and Social Council; serves on the UN Women
Caribbean Multi-Office Advisory/Advocacy Council; and is Communication
Officer for the Caribbean Network of Rural Women Producers
References:
1. Details on the signing can be found at:
en/news-and-events/stories/2016/7/in-defence-of-gender-equality
Women’s empowerment through effective participation and equal
opportunity in employment, decision-making and leadership
1. As at December 2015, women made up 43.4 per cent of state sector
boards and committees. This is a significant increase on 41.7 per
cent in 2014. In 2015, 51.4 per cent of ministerial appointments to
boards were women.
stocktake-state-sector-boards-and-committees-2016
2.
3.
peoples-decisions-and-gender-segregation-in-the-trades.pdf
4. Realising the opportunity: Addressing New Zealand’s leadership
pipeline by attracting and retaining talented women (2013), http://
zealand’s-leadership-pipeline-2013
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